[Western Fantasy] The mystery of life and death

In the darkness, the rustling voice became clearer and clearer.Cuesta judged that it was a giant cave scorpion approaching.Although the giant scorpion's carapace was hard and its size was huge, Custa was not afraid of this beast, and it was easy for her to deal with it.But for some reason, the voice in the darkness made her feel inexplicably frightened, and she even felt a little short of breath.After she got used to seeing things in the dark, she saw the silhouette of a giant scorpion appearing in the center of the cave, with its tail curved high.She suddenly saw a horrifying scene, the giant scorpion crawled slowly towards it with a person in its mouth.A dim light source from nowhere reflected the reflection of the man's blond hair.She saw the man's face clearly, he was actually Luo Ka!

Cuesta heard her exclamation, her long whip had swept away subconsciously, a string of flickering accompanied by the sound of thunder.Both the giant scorpion and Loka disappeared.She saw Luoka sitting leaning against the rock, his whole body was bloodstained, holding "Morning Dew" in his hand, his face was also stained with blood, and his face was full of pain.She suddenly found a black shadow in front of Loka, and that shadow stretched out his hand to Loka, and Loka's figure slowly disintegrated into dust and smoke.

"No! No!" cried Custa, her whip of the Thunder Eel flying like a lightning serpent across the cavern.Illuminating more grisly pictures.She saw the mage with black hair and black clothes grinning, his purple eyes standing out clearly in the darkness.Long fangs protruded from the corners of his mouth.

At this moment, the ground under her feet trembled violently, and there was a sudden crack, and Custa felt her long whip finally hit something, and she heard a scream and the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground from that direction.Roll the long whip, and roll the heavy object that fell to the ground.She turned on the mirror lake pearl to illuminate, and there was a mage with black hair and black clothes under her feet.

Cuista was startled, and activated her mana, the long whip tied to the mage flashed crackling lightning, and the mage groaned as if fainted.

Custa stepped forward to inspect carefully, she brushed aside the man's messy black hair, revealing a pale and haggard face, it was Mason!

Although Mason was in a coma and looked very miserable, the strange scene just now still made Custa linger in fear.She knew that Mason's black priesthood robe had a lot of magical blessings, as well as many small organs.Just to be on the safe side, Custa searched him carefully from the inside to the outside with a little pity in her heart.

I don't know if Master Libertas never fed Mason enough.As she checked and turned Mason, Custa felt the bones under her skin cracking.If it weren't for the terrifying rumors of the "Evil Eye", Trista suspected that he had been severely abused during the period of his disappearance.Mason was bruised all over his body, with bruises, redness and swelling all over his body.It was as if someone had been brutally beaten.

In order to interrogate earlier, Custa had to apply some healing techniques.However, after waiting for a long time, he still did not wake up.

It seems that the shot just now was a bit heavy.

The pale sleeping face, haggard and innocent, pure and sweet like a child in front of her eyes made Custa feel unbearable. Is he really the "Eye of the Devil"?Looking at the unconscious Mason on the ground, Custa thought, then he is too vulnerable.

Finally, when Cuista was about to lose patience, Mason's feather-like eyelashes trembled, and his eyes opened slightly, revealing a line of purple pupils.Seeing that Custa was secretly startled, she observed vigilantly for a while, and found that he seemed not very awake at this time, and was talking like a dream.She could tell he was calling Lorca's name.

After a while, Mason's eyes slowly focused, and he didn't panic after seeing Custa clearly.It is different from the timid and shy in Custa's impression.At this point Mason looked calm and composed.He wanted to stand up and salute, but his whole body was sore and numb, so he could barely sit up and saluted, expressing his apology to Custa.

"Your Royal Highness." He lowered his eyes, quietly and docilely.Let Cuista feel a little relieved.

Trista sat down across from him. "Mason, we need to talk." She rolled up her whip.

"Yes, Your Royal Highness." Mason lowered his eyebrows and looked pleasing to the eye.

"Where's Loka?"

"I don't know, I haven't seen him before." Mason lowered his head.

Custa's long whip began to flicker with lightning.

"What are you doing here?"

"Looking for something."

"Looking for what?"

"I... I don't know either."

Custa raised her forehead, it was more difficult to talk to a mentally disturbed person than to fight a fierce beast.

Mason was obviously docile and cooperative, but he refused to tell the truth.

Cuista felt restless, and the lightning flashed more intensely.

"I... want to find something important, but I don't know what it is yet." Mason seemed to be trying to explain.

"Honestly, where is Loka?" Custa asked

"I don't know, I haven't met him. I don't know." Mason replied bewildered.

"Lorca is your best friend!" Custa yelled angrily.

Custa was already on the verge of rage.The long whip started to swim away, and the dazzling electric light flickered to illuminate Mason's pale and haggard face.Suddenly, the long whip wrapped tightly around Mason's neck like a spirit snake. Mason grabbed the long whip with both hands and wanted to tear it away, but the long whip around his neck tightened more and more.He tried his best to breathe, but it was getting harder and harder.Finally, when he was about to suffocate and faint, the long whip let go, and Mason breathed in the precious air with great gulps. Suddenly, he was whipped hard again with a "crack", and he was choked by his own painful breathing. The robe was also torn.

"Your Highness...Hah...cough...heh..." Mason panted with difficulty.

"Say! How is Loka doing now?" Custa sternly questioned with a trembling. "Speak! Where is he?"

Seeing that Mason was too out of breath for a moment, Custa could only restrain her anxiety and stop her hand, the long whip in her hand flickered with lightning.

Mason slowed down for a while, and was finally able to speak, but he looked up at Custa calmly, "Your Highness."

Custa didn't dare to look directly into those purple eyes, she looked away. "explain!"

"Yimihua appeared again, in the temple."

Why did Mason bring this up?Yimihua was once all the rage in the secret realm, but it has disappeared for many years.Back then, many people became mentally confused and addicted to it because of abuse.The Council of Elders spent a lot of time rectifying it, and later it was strictly forbidden to plant and use this psychedelic plant in the secret realm.

She remembered that the water pool also contained refined yomi flower ingredients.There is also the anomaly of "headwind".

Why did Mason bring this up?Is it a confession?God, what did he do to Lorca?

"Where is Loka? Tell me, where is he?" Custa's eyes were red, suppressing worry and anger.Long Whip wandered around Mason.

Mason sighed, "I don't know, I really haven't seen him."

Trista felt that these words were very strange, neither like a confession nor a denial.

She decided to change the subject temporarily, and suddenly asked, "Did you steal the treasure house?"

At this moment, Mason raised his head, his eyes were deep, and suddenly the purple light in his eyes burst into a bewitching light.Waves of magic waves came from his body, getting stronger and stronger.Cuista was horrified, the giant-toothed thunder eel's long whip lit up with dazzling lightning and swam away, followed by a series of crackling sounds.Mason groaned and fell to the ground.Blood oozed from the wound on the neck and cheek, which was horrifying.

Custa had just recovered from her shock, looking at Mason on the ground, she couldn't help but regret that she had hit hard.

I don't know how long it will take to wake up this time, and I can't interrogate for the time being.Custa tied him with a long whip, dragged him into a corner and threw him aside.She began to search the cave carefully again.

Mason said he was "looking for something" What was he looking for?

Could it be that she came here to find something she just discovered?what does that mean?

He obviously has something to do with Loka's whereabouts!

In order to get a confession as soon as possible, Custa resisted the urge to whip him a few more times, and she tried to adjust her breathing to force herself to calm down.

Cuista urged the mirror dream crystal beads to float around in the cave, and did not sense any fluctuations in magical energy.She searched almost every crevice carefully again, but found nothing.She sat disappointedly by the rock that was stained with the last trace of Loka, she thought, who did Loka meet when he was sitting here?She glanced at Mason in the corner, could it be him?

What did Lorca see then?

Custa felt lost and tired, she raised her head inadvertently, and suddenly found a huge pattern painted on the top of the cave!Zesta jumped to her feet, urging several mirror lake pearls to completely illuminate the rock at the top of the cave.

It was a complicated pattern, the lines were regularly connected and interlaced, and the countless meandering symbols were like countless twisted long snakes.Looking at it for a long time makes people feel slightly dizzy.It was a large magic circle.

Custa didn't know that magic circle.That is not any magic circle in the Aranti magic system.She has never seen it!